http://www.howtostartownbusiness.co.uk/can-you-really-start-your-own-business/ Perhaps you are an employee worried about your job; perhaps you are looking for work, tried many times and have found it unsuccessful? The question is: What are you going to do next? Are you going to keep searching for a job? Or are you going to take action and create your own job, create your own business?
I would like to break it into three parts: Preparing for Business, Doing The Groundwork and Have You Got What It Takes?
Part 1: Preparing for Business
Preparing the business means getting ready to change everything you have done before in your working life if you have been an employee. Remember, as an employee, you used to go to work, perhaps clock in every time at the same time, go and do your work and follow instructions, and leave at the end of the day.
Being an employee is totally different to running your own business. Preparing for business is a change of mindset. Have you got the change of mindset to really change your way of life?
• You are the boss.
• You are the decision maker.
• You are the finance person in the office.
• You are the person that makes all the ground rules.
So getting prepared means really understanding what business you are in, and therefore that is the first task to prepare for business. You need to ask yourself, “What business am I in?”
Part 2: Doing The Groundwork
That means choosing a business that is going to be sustainable. Are people willing to pay money for your service? Can people find you? Are you easy to do business with? Doing the groundwork means doing the research to find out in the first place is there a demand for what you are proposing? Are you going to do the groundwork? This means, can you go and get all the foundation skills implemented and get the business running and started at a minimal cost? Because cost is going to be one of the key factors. Perhaps you don't have much money to start off with.
Are you able to start small, find a market that will be hungry for what you've got and be able to satisfy that market? While you're learning your business you grow your business from the ground up. But getting the groundwork done is essential.
Part 3: Have You Got What It Takes?
I believe that everybody has got what it takes, but do you have the patience? Do you have the perseverance? Are you willing to take rejection before you actually find the formula that works?
Because the key to being a successful entrepreneur and having your own business is recognising that failure is part of success.
Now, sometimes you need mentors. Sometimes you need to speak with people in the industry or comparable industries. Perhaps you need to understand things you have never done before as an employee. Really, these are the ground works because you really do have what it takes to get started.
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